Wilson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 1982
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Riss & Co. v. Anderson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[The] statute * * * is not designed to relieve a third party from the consequences of injuries to another negligently inflicted, but merely affords a means of adjusting rights as between the injured employee and his employer * *. The purpose of the statute is merely to prescribe how a fund resulting from the payment of damages by one who negligently causes them shall be divided between [the employee] and his employer * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * in the event of a recovery from defendants for the wrong alleged, the commission first is entitled to receive from the sum awarded the amount of compensation for which the state fund is liable under the act, the balance, if any, to go to Wilson.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobson v. Doan“shall be evidenced in such manner as the commission may by rule or regulation prescribe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.